Ellen O. Tauscher is founder, President, and Chief Exective officer of The ChildCare
Registry, Inc., the first national child care provider pre-employment screening
and resume verification service designed to provide parents and child care service
operators with comprehensive, legally released, 7 year background checks. The company
was established in 1992 and is headquartered in Danville, California, with a sales
office in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Tauscher and The ChildCare Registry have receieved
national aclaim for the service and have been featured on The Today Show, CNBC's
"How to Succeed in Business", and The Opra Winfry Show. Additionally, Ms Tauscher
and The ChildCare Registry have been profiled in numerous newspaper and magazine
articles including the New York Times, Associated Press, The San Francisco Chronicle,
the Los Angleles Times, Parenting Magazine, Working Mother, Vogue, and American Baby.

Ms. Tauscher began here career in investment banking and brokerage on Wall Street,
where she spent 14 years in senior-level positions. She joined Bache Securities
(now Prudential Securities) in 1974 and Bach elected here to a seat on The New York
Stock Exchange in 1977. She was 25 years old at the time and the first woman to hold
a seat representing a major Wall Street financial institution. Ms. Tauscher continued
to build a reputable career in finance as an executive with the American Stock
Exchange from 1979 to 1983 and then in investment banking with Bear Stearns and a
subsidiary of Drexel, Burnham, Lambert.

Because of her accomplishments on Wall Street, Ms. Tausher has been sought-after by
prestigious non-profit, educational and political organizations ranging from Senate
campaigns and Olympic Committees to corporate board of director memberships. From
1978 to 1980 she served as Vice Chair of the New York State Olympic Committee and
founded the Wall Street Olympic Committee, a multi-million dolar Olympic fundraising
vehicle tageting the financial community. Between 1985 and 1989, Ms Tauscher was a
member of the Seton Hall University Board of Regents. She also created the Tauscher
Foundation upon her marriage to William Y. Tauscher in 1980. The Tauscher Foundation
has provided $250, 000 to California and Texas schools to purchase computer equipment
for primary school children.

Ms. Tauscher is a director of The Tauscher Family Companies, a private entity with
annual sales of over $140 million and includes beef and transportation companies
located in Dallas, Texas. Ms. Tauscher is also a member of the Board of Directors
of TECSEC of Vienna, Virginia, The California Symphony, Alumnae Resources in San
Francisco, Business Executives for National Security in Washington, D. C., and
TradeRights, Inc. of Cheltenham, Unitied Kingdom.

Ms. Tauscher and her husband, William,. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vanstart Corporation, formerly ComputerLand Corp, reside in Pleasanton, California and are the parents of Katherine, age 4. Ms. Tauscher is a graduate of Seton Hall University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education.